Special Educational Needs
- Duration: 30:00 minutes
- Subtitles available
- Published: 10 10 2007
- Licence information for Special Educational Needs
- Part of the series Resource Review (Secondary)
Summary
In this special edition of Resource Review we look at six resources for special educational needs.
For primary, Dr Rona Tutt, SEN consultant for the NAHT, recommends:
- Rapid by Heinemann - a reading programme designed with special educational needs in mind
- Maths Games 1 by 2Simple - six maths games based on traditional arcade games
- Behaviour TrackMaker from Surer Steps - software to make behaviour prompt cards
For secondary, Lorraine Petersen, chief executive officer for NASEN, has recommended:
- Toe by Toe by K & H Cowling - a highly structured multi-sensory reading manual
- What To Do When You Can't Learn The Times Tables CD-ROM by Marko Publishing - a flash based CD-ROM for learning the times tables
- Learning Materials by Learning Materials Ltd - three books of various difficulty for KS3
ICT expert Matthew Tosh has been to see some of these resources in action, and presenter Hermione Cockburn is joined in the studio by Rona and Lorraine, SENCOs Maria Pierides and Jane Allison and freelance education consultant Adrienne Jones.
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Comments (3)
This should be Support for Basic Science Unit 4 by Learning Materials Ltd.
Surer Steps have released a follow up product called TrackMaker Plus and Home Track Maker. The new software can make quick sequencing lessons and is designed for individual, small group or whole class. A lot more editing is allowed and so choice and consequences can be reflected. You can also import your own pictures...see the website.
These games make it fun to practise or test your mental maths. But children with maths difficulties usually need something that helps to build concepts, such as most of the activities on
www.rainforestmaths.com
and
http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resource.aspx?resourceId=5928
Perhaps you could help me promote these in some way?
Mecky